Handpicked Experiences
Castle Tours in Europe
101 multi-castle day trips and guided experiences across more than 30 countries, curated from thousands of verified reviews.
Granada: Alhambra & Nasrid Palaces Skip-the-Line Guided Tour
Spain's most visited monument — and the most perfect palace complex ever built
From €47
Loch Ness, Glencoe & Scottish Highlands Day Trip from Edinburgh
Eilean Donan Castle, the mysterious Loch Ness, and the wild Glencoe valley in one epic day
From £45
Palace of Versailles Skip-the-Line Half-Day Trip from Paris
The Sun King's masterpiece — the grandest palace ever built, one hour from Paris
From €45
Bran Castle, Peleș Castle & Brașov Day Trip from Bucharest
Dracula's castle, Romania's grandest palace, and a medieval Saxon city — all in one day
From $11
Windsor Castle, Stonehenge & Bath Day Trip from London
Britain's oldest royal residence, the world's most famous prehistoric monument, and a Georgian spa city — all in one day
From £85
Edinburgh Castle: Guided History Tour with Entry Ticket
Scotland's most visited attraction — a thousand years of royal history on an extinct volcano above the city
From £42
Prague Castle Small Group Tour with Local Guide & Entry Tickets
The largest ancient castle complex in the world — 1,000 years of Bohemian history on a hill above the Vltava
From €52
Loire Valley Castles Day Trip from Paris — Chambord, Chenonceau & More
The greatest concentration of Renaissance châteaux in the world — just 90 minutes from Paris
From €79
Český Krumlov Castle & Old Town Day Trip from Prague
A perfectly preserved medieval castle town that feels like a film set — 3 hours from Prague
From €35
Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel: Full-Day Guided Tour
France's most extraordinary fortress-abbey, rising from a tidal island at the edge of Normandy
From €89
Sintra, Pena Palace & Quinta da Regaleira Day Trip from Lisbon
Portugal's most magical palaces — a fairy-tale hilltop village just 40 minutes from Lisbon
From €39
Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon & Oxford Day Trip from London
England's finest medieval castle, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Britain's oldest university — all in one extraordinary day
From £65
Royal Alcázar of Seville: Skip-the-Line Guided Tour
The oldest royal palace still in use in Europe — Mudéjar masterwork of breathtaking beauty
From €42
Stirling Castle, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs from Edinburgh
Scotland's most important castle and its most beautiful loch in a single Highland day
From £39
Schönbrunn Palace Skip-the-Line Tour with Imperial Apartments
The Habsburg summer residence — 1,441 rooms, a century of empire, and the gardens of Vienna
From €29
Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle Day Trip from Munich
Two of Bavaria's most spectacular royal castles in a single unforgettable day
From €65
Tower of London Guided Tour with Crown Jewels & Beefeaters
One thousand years of royal history, the world's most famous jewels, and the guards who still protect them
From £32
Bruges & Ghent Day Trip from Brussels — Gravensteen Castle & Two Medieval Cities
Two of the most perfectly preserved medieval cities in Europe — canals, béguinages, and the Castle of the Counts
From €69
Vienna: Wachau Valley, Melk Abbey & Dürnstein Castle Day Trip
A Baroque monastery on a river cliff, the castle where Richard the Lionheart was imprisoned, and the Danube's most beautiful valley
From €79
Krakow: Skip-the-Line Wawel Castle & Old Town Guided Tour
Poland's royal hill — where kings were crowned, Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine hangs, and a dragon guards the Vistula
From €28
Segovia & Toledo with Alcázar Entry from Madrid
Two UNESCO World Heritage cities, two legendary Alcázar fortresses — one extraordinary day from Madrid
From €79
Strasbourg: Haut-Kœnigsbourg Castle & Alsace Wine Route
A perfectly restored medieval fortress above the most beautiful wine villages in France
From €55
Dubrovnik: City Walls & Game of Thrones Tour
Walk the walls of King's Landing — the medieval republic that inspired Westeros
From €39
Guimarães Castle & Braga Day Trip from Porto
The birthplace of Portugal — the 10th-century castle where Afonso Henriques founded a nation
From €45
Edinburgh: Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle & Alnwick Day Trip
Three legendary fortresses of the Northumbrian coast — Lindisfarne, Bamburgh and Harry Potter's castle
From £45
Edinburgh: St Andrews, Dunnottar Castle & Falkland Palace Tour
Scotland's most dramatic cliff-top castle, the home of golf, and a royal Stuart palace in one day
From £49
Castel Sant'Angelo Rome: Skip-the-Line Guided Tour
2,000 years of history in one fortress — Hadrian's tomb, papal refuge, and Renaissance palace all in one
From €29
From Ljubljana: Lake Bled Castle & Bled Island
The clifftop medieval castle above Europe's most photographed lake — and the island church you can only reach by traditional flat-bottomed boat
From €40
Frankfurt: Rhine Valley Castle Cruise & Wine Tasting
Seven medieval fortresses, a river cruise through UNESCO gorges, and Riesling at the source
From €79
Dublin to Kilkenny Castle: Medieval Day Trip
Ireland's finest medieval city and its magnificent Norman castle in one perfect day
From €45
From Athens: Mycenae, Nafplio & Palamidi Fortress
From the Bronze Age citadel where Agamemnon ruled to the Venetian fortress that loomed over Greece's first modern capital — 3,000 years of fortified history in a single day
From €65
Outlander Filming Locations Day Trip from Edinburgh — Doune Castle & Highlands
Castle Leoch, Cranesmuir, and the Scottish Highlands that inspired Diana Gabaldon's world
From £55
Heidelberg Castle & Old City Day Trip from Frankfurt
Germany's most romantic ruin — a Renaissance castle above a baroque university city on the Neckar
From €49
Swiss Riviera Day Trip from Geneva — Montreux & Château de Chillon
The most beautifully situated castle in Europe — rising from Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps
From €89
From Copenhagen: Kronborg, Frederiksborg & Roskilde Cathedral
Shakespeare's Elsinore, the Danish Renaissance masterpiece, and the cathedral where 39 kings and queens have been buried — a full circuit of royal Denmark
From €90
Karlštejn Castle Half-Day Trip from Prague
The Gothic jewel of Bohemia — Charles IV's treasure fortress rising from the Berounka valley, 30km from Prague
From €35
From Sarajevo: Mostar, Počitelj & Blagaj — Herzegovina Full Day
Three Ottoman-era fortified sites in the Neretva valley — a medieval bridge, a hillside citadel, and a Dervish monastery at the source of a river
From €35
Liverpool: Caernarfon & Conwy — The UNESCO Castles of Edward I
Two of Europe's greatest medieval fortresses, built by England's most ambitious castle-builder
From £45
From Budapest: Danube Bend — Visegrád, Esztergom & Szentendre
Three chapters of Hungarian history on the river's most dramatic curve — a royal palace lost for 400 years, the kingdom's first capital, and a baroque town built by exiled Serbs
From €45
From Dublin: Bunratty Castle, Cliffs of Moher & Ennis
Ireland's most complete tower castle, the most spectacular sea cliffs in Europe, and the medieval capital of County Clare
From €40
Kronborg & Frederiksborg Castle Day Trip from Copenhagen
Hamlet's castle and Denmark's most spectacular royal palace — two of the finest in Scandinavia in a single day
From €85
From Belfast: Carrickfergus Castle, Dunluce & Giant's Causeway
900 years of Norman conquest and a cliff-edge ruin so extreme its kitchen fell into the sea during a dinner party — the most dramatic castle coast in the British Isles
From £32
Hohensalzburg Fortress: Skip-the-Line Entry & Guided Tour
One of the largest and best-preserved medieval castles in Europe — looming above Mozart's city since 1077
From €22
From Munich: Harburg Castle, Rothenburg & the Romantic Road
A castle that survived every war unscathed and the world's best-preserved medieval walled town — the Romantic Road at its finest
From €55
Royal Palace of Caserta Day Trip from Naples
Italy's answer to Versailles — 1,200 rooms, the longest baroque fountain cascade in the world, and a Star Wars film set
From €35
Budapest: Historic Buda Castle District Walking Tour
A thousand years of Hungarian royal history on Castle Hill — palaces, churches, and panoramas above the Danube
From €25
Palermo: Norman Palace, Palatine Chapel & Medieval Sicily Tour
The most extraordinary Norman court in Europe — where Arab, Byzantine and Christian cultures fused into gold
From €29
Oslo: Akershus Fortress & Waterfront History Walking Tour
Seven centuries of Norwegian history above the Oslo Fjord
From €29
Budapest to Eger: Castle of the Brave & Bull's Blood Wines
The heroic castle that stopped the Ottoman Empire — plus Hungary's most famous wine cellars
From €38
Carcassonne Day Trip from Toulouse with Audioguide
The most complete medieval walled city in Europe — 3km of double ramparts, 52 towers, and 2,500 years of continuous habitation
From €39
Predjama Castle & Postojna Cave Tour from Ljubljana
The world's largest cave castle, built into a cliff face above one of Europe's greatest underground caverns
From €55
Blarney Castle, Rock of Cashel & Cahir Castle Day Trip from Dublin
Three of Ireland's greatest castles — kiss the Blarney Stone, stand on the Rock of Cashel, explore Cahir's perfect fortress
From €89
From Dubrovnik: Perast, Kotor & Budva – Montenegro's Three Fortified Towns
Three medieval walled towns on the Adriatic in one day — the most spectacular fortification circuit in the former Yugoslavia
From €60
From Riga: Cēsis Castle, Sigulda & Turaida – Latvia's Medieval Triangle
Three Livonian Order fortresses in the forested Gauja Valley — the most dramatic castle circuit in the Baltic states
From €40
From York: Yorkshire Dales, Bolton Castle & Wensleydale
A 14th-century fortress in the heart of England's most beautiful dale — where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned and Wallace and Gromit got their cheese
From £45
From Madrid: Ávila's Medieval Walls & Salamanca – Castile's Two Crown Jewels
The most complete medieval city walls in Europe and the Golden City of Spain's Renaissance — two UNESCO masterpieces in one day
From €55
Cappadocia Red Tour: Uchisar & Ortahisar Rock Castles with Lunch
Two volcanic rock castles carved by nature and sculpted by man
From €38
From Skopje: Ohrid — Samuel's Fortress & Lake Ohrid
The capital of a medieval empire on the shore of the oldest lake in Europe — Byzantine churches, a 10th-century fortress, and a city that has been continuously inhabited for 2,400 years
From €30
From Kraków: Trail of the Eagles' Nests — Medieval Castle Ruins
A chain of 14th-century fortresses on Jurassic limestone cliffs — Poland's most dramatic medieval landscape, built in a single reign to guard a kingdom's southern edge
From €35
From Avignon: Les Baux Fortress, Pont du Gard & Saint-Rémy
A ruined castle on a white limestone spur, a Roman aqueduct defying gravity, and the asylum where Van Gogh painted the stars
From €85
Stockholm: Drottningholm Palace & Royal Castle Tour
The Versailles of the North — a UNESCO royal palace still home to the Swedish royal family
From €75
Malbork Castle Day Trip from Gdansk
The largest castle in the world by floor area — a Gothic brick fortress of extraordinary scale built by the Teutonic Knights
From €29
From Bari: Castel del Monte & Trani – Puglia's Two Medieval Masterpieces
The world's most mysterious castle and a cathedral built into the sea — Frederick II's two UNESCO masterpieces in Puglia
From €35
Trieste: Miramare Castle & San Giusto Fortress
The Habsburg castle built for the man who became Emperor of Mexico — and the hilltop fortress where Trieste's 2,000-year history overlaps in a single view
From €25
Bergen: Bergenhus Fortress, Rosenkrantz Tower & Bryggen
The medieval royal hall of Norway's most powerful king, a Renaissance tower built by a Danish governor, and the Hanseatic wharf that made Bergen the trade capital of the North Sea
From €28
From Tbilisi: Ananuri Fortress, Gudauri & Kazbegi Day Trip
A 13th-century castle reflected in a mountain reservoir on the road to the Caucasus
From $32
From Cardiff: Three Castles & the Welsh Mountains
The largest castle in Wales, the most dramatic of the Civil War ruins, and the leaning tower that leans more than Pisa — all in one day from Cardiff
From £45
From Barcelona: Montserrat & Cardona Castle Day Trip
Catalonia's two most sacred heights — a Benedictine monastery on serrated rock and a feudal castle built the year Charlemagne's grandsons divided his empire
From €75
Corvin Castle & Alba Carolina Citadel Day Trip from Cluj
Transylvania's most dramatic Gothic fortress — the castle that inspired Bram Stoker's imagination
From €45
From Zurich: Rhine Falls, Stein am Rhein & Munot Fortress
Europe's most powerful waterfall with a medieval castle above it, the most completely preserved painted medieval town in Switzerland, and a circular Renaissance fortress unlike any other in Europe
From €65
From Sofia: Tsarevets Fortress, Veliko Tarnovo & Arbanasi Day Trip
The hilltop citadel of the Bulgarian tsars — capital of a medieval empire that challenged Byzantium for two centuries
From €45
Amsterdam to Muiderslot: Medieval Water Castle Day Trip
One of Europe's best-preserved medieval castles, just 30 minutes from Amsterdam
From €39
From Split: Diocletian's Palace, Klis Fortress & Trogir
A Roman emperor's retirement fortress, the Game of Thrones slave city, and a UNESCO medieval island — three of the Adriatic's greatest fortified sites in one day
From €25
Rhodes: Medieval City, Palace of the Grand Master & Lindos Acropolis
Three thousand years of fortress history — Knights Hospitaller, Byzantine towers and a Greek acropolis above the Aegean
From €65
From Amsterdam: Muiderslot & De Haar Castle Day Trip
The Netherlands' two finest medieval castles in one day — a moated 13th-century water fortress and the neo-Gothic Rothschild palace on the edge of Utrecht
From €55
Stuttgart to Hohenzollern Castle: The Crown of the German Empire
The ancestral seat of the Kaisers, rising from its own mountain in the Swabian Alps
From €55
From Siena: San Gimignano, Volterra & Monteriggioni – Tuscany's Three Fortified Towns
A ring fortress, 14 medieval towers and an Etruscan hill-city — the most concentrated fortification circuit in Tuscany
From €60
From Dresden: Albrechtsburg Meissen & Moritzburg Castle
The Gothic hilltop castle where European porcelain was born, and the Baroque hunting lodge on a lake where Augustus the Strong staged the most extravagant court in Saxony
From €38
Eltz Castle Day Trip from Frankfurt
The most beautiful castle in Germany — never conquered, never destroyed, never rebuilt, still owned by the same family for 850 years
From €79
From Lisbon: Alentejo – Évora, Chapel of Bones & Monsaraz Castle
A Roman city turned medieval capital, a church decorated with human skulls, and a perfect hilltop castle above Europe's largest reservoir
From €65
From Stockholm: Vaxholm Fortress & the Archipelago
The fortress that guarded Stockholm from seaborne invasion for 400 years — and the archipelago of 30,000 islands that made it possible
From €55
From Milan: Lake Garda, Salò & Sirmione Day Trip with Boat
Three Scaligero castles and a boat on the most beautiful lake in Italy
From €62
From Lisbon: Medieval Portugal – Batalha, Tomar, Alcobaça & Óbidos
Four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in one day — from Knights Templar fortress to Portugal's most perfect medieval village
From €70
From Tirana: Berat – The City of a Thousand Windows & Its Living Castle
A UNESCO castle-city still inhabited after 2,400 years — Byzantine churches, Ottoman mosques and inhabited houses all inside the same medieval walls
From €35
From Warsaw: Malbork Castle & Gdańsk Day Trip
The world's largest castle and the most beautiful medieval port in the Baltic
From €75
Sarlat: Beynac, Castelnaud & La Roque Gageac – The Dordogne Castle Valley
Two medieval rivals on opposing cliffs — one English, one French — glaring at each other across the most castle-dense valley in Europe
From €80
From Albufeira: Silves Castle, Lagos & Ponta da Piedade Tour
The Moorish capital of the Algarve and the most dramatic coastline in Portugal
From €45
From Tallinn: Narva Castle, Ivangorod Fortress & The Edge of Europe
Two medieval fortresses 150 metres apart — one in Estonia, one in Russia — the most dramatic border crossing in European history
From €45
From Belgrade: Danube Fortresses — Golubac, Smederevo & Ram
Three medieval fortresses on the river that separates Serbia from the empire that consumed it — the Danube's most dramatic castle chain, with wine tasting included
From €45
Istanbul: Theodosian Walls, Yedikule Fortress & the Golden Gate
The most formidable land fortification in European history — the walls that defended Constantinople for a thousand years, and the seven-towered fortress built where they finally fell
From €35
Luxembourg: Vianden Castle, Beaufort Ruins & Medieval Echternach
Two extraordinary medieval fortresses — a perfectly preserved Gothic castle and dramatic hilltop ruins — in Europe's most castle-dense small country
From €55
North Wales Castles Day Trip from Manchester — Caernarfon & Conwy
Two of Edward I's greatest fortresses — the finest medieval castle-building project in British history
From £49
From Sibiu: Brașov & Bran Castle Day Tour
Two of Transylvania's greatest cities and its most famous Gothic fortress
From €42
From Brussels: Wallonia Fortress Cities — Namur, Bouillon, Huy & Dinant
Four medieval fortress cities in the Ardennes — including the castle that Godefroy de Bouillon sold to finance the First Crusade
From €120
From Verona: Sirmione & Lake Garda Day Tour with Cruise
The Scaligero dynasty's lake fortresses from the city of Romeo and Juliet
From €48
From Tirana: Berat UNESCO Castle City & Belshi Lake
The City of a Thousand Windows and its ancient hilltop fortress
From €38
From Helsinki: Turku Castle & Cathedral – Finland's Medieval Capital
Finland's largest medieval fortress and the city that was the kingdom's capital for 500 years — a full-day journey to where Finnish history began
From €60
From Bratislava: Slovakia's Most Beautiful Castles – Bojnice & Trencin
A fairy-tale neo-Gothic castle and a hilltop fortress built over a Roman legionary camp — Slovakia's two greatest castles in one day
From €80
From Sofia: Belogradchik Fortress & Venetsa Cave Day Tour
A medieval fortress built into blood-red rock formations in the Bulgarian mountains
From €48
From Paphos: Kolossi Castle, Kourion & Limassol Day Tour
Crusader fortresses and ancient cities on the sun-baked coast of Cyprus
From €58
Vilnius: Trakai Island Castle, Kernave Hill Forts & Gediminas Tower
The last pagan state in Europe — an island fortress, five ancient hill forts and the Gothic tower of the Grand Duchy
From €150